In The Mood For Love (25th Anniversary) at the Rio Theatre

Name: In The Mood For Love (25th Anniversary) at the Rio Theatre
Start: 2025-08-14T18:30:00-07:00
End: 2025-08-14T20:30:00-07:00
Location: The Rio Theatre

Schedule

Thu Aug 14 2025 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

The Rio Theatre | Vancouver, BC

Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them.
For the celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the film, Wong Kar Wai has revisited the original concept of the film. With this special edition he has offered the possibility of storytelling by adding an unseen chapter as a bonus to the original version.
Initially conceived as one third of a triptych about food, IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE was expanded into a stand-alone feature that won immediate recognition as a modern-day classic. Another third—intended as the “dessert,” as Wong Kar Wai has put it—was, until now, only screened during his masterclass at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Now available in wide release for the first time, IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE 2001 demonstrates the director’s masterful ability to generate palpable atmosphere and striking characterizations on a miniature canvas—with the film’s stars Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Maggie Cheung Man Yuk once again providing the sizzling chemistry— evoking the mystery of transient, unexpected connections in the modern city through his inimitable romantic touch.
At once delicately mannered and visually extravagant, IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments. With its aching musical soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping-bin, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past decade of cinema, and is a milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career. (In Sight & Sound’s most recent poll of The Greatest Films of All Time, the film finds itself ranked at #5.)
“Wong Kar Wai’s masterpiece is a heartbreaking story of illicit love that pulses with the ache of repressed desire.” (BFI.org)
“So skillfully does the director brings us to a state of breathless expectation that when he refuses to deliver the goods he almost seems to have invented a new form of perversion.” (New Yorker Magazine)
“Further complemented by the gentle lull of Nat King Cole songs, ‘In The Mood For Love’ casts a dreamy and melancholic spell that remains unbroken long after the closing credits have rolled.” (AV Club)
“Stylized, set-designed to the last hair wisp, the film is a mixture of bold devices with delicate understatement that leave a remarkable aftereffect.” (Globe and Mail)
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Thursday, August 14
Doors 6:00 pm | Movie 6:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
Tickets: https://riotheatretickets.ca/events/38013-in-the-mood-for-love-25th-anniversary-edition
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Sunday, August 17
Doors 3:45 pm | Movie 4:10 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
Tickets: https://riotheatretickets.ca/events/38252-in-the-mood-for-love-25th-anniversary-edition
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IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE 2001 (Wong Kar Wai, 2000 / PG / 107 mins / Cantonese with English subtitles) Hong Kong, 1962: A journalist, Chow and his wife move into a Hong Kong apartment, but his spouse is often away on business. Before long, the lonely Chow makes the acquaintance of an alluring neighbour whose own significant other also seems preoccupied with work. As the two friends realize their respective partners are cheating on them, they begin to fall for one another; however, neither wants to stoop to the level of the unfaithful spouses.
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